Windows won't 'see' my Mac drives

Windows can neither read nor write to a non windows drive. You will need either a 3rd party file system addition, or an external drive formatted as FAT.

All versions of BootCamped Windows that I have used in the past 5 years have been able to rightclick Copy then Paste object (pictures, videos, etc.) from (User index) in Mac OS to Windows when in Windows OS.

ReMacs wrote:

All versions of BootCamped Windows that I have used in the past 5 years have been able to rightclick Copy then Paste object (pictures, videos, etc.) from (User index) in Mac OS to Windows when in Windows OS.

You're a lucky person then.

I know back when I was still running Boot Camp, the Boot Camp installer on Windows did install a read-only driver to read Mac HFS+ formatted drives. With that driver loaded, you could read from teh Mac HD and copy files to your Windows partition while running native Windows. I do recall that I had removed that driver and upgraded to one of the third party drivers to get full read/write access to my HFS+ drives when running windows too. I had 4-5 licenses for MacDrive before I moved over to use the driver from Paragon. The Paragon driver was quite a bit cheaper, and I had fewer problems when using it, as it hooked into the native Windows drivers much better than the MacDrive product did. YMMV.

As I mentioned in my previous post, when I was using Boot Camp, Apple provided one in the "Windows Support Software" (on teh install DVD for Snow Leopard, and in the first download for Boot Camp). You can also get commercial drivers from Paragon and MacDrive. I don't remember the exct prices but I think they range from $20-$50 depending upon which one you get.

GeekBoy.from.Illinois wrote:

As I mentioned in my previous post, when I was using Boot Camp, Apple provided one in the "Windows Support Software" (on teh install DVD for Snow Leopard, and in the first download for Boot Camp). You can also get commercial drivers from Paragon and MacDrive. I don't remember the exct prices but I think they range from $20-$50 depending upon which one you get.

As you are the only person that seems to have been able to write to an OSX partition from Windows (without 3rd party drivers) stop keeping it secret, tell the others who want to know how.

It is unfair of you to claim that you know how to do it, then not explain!

Please let me know where you believe I said I had write access to HFS+ formatted partitions without third party software. I statted that Apple had provided a read-only driver as a part of Boot Camp, and I don't recall claiming that there was write access without using third party software.

GeekBoy.from.Illinois wrote:

Please let me know where you believe I said I had write access to HFS+ formatted partitions without third party software. I statted that Apple had provided a read-only driver as a part of Boot Camp, and I don't recall claiming that there was write access without using third party software.

That driver allowed Mac operating systems to read (but not write) from Windows (specifically NTFS) file systems, it did not enable the 'other way around'

Windows is not capable of reading from HFS file systems without 3rd party software.

Well, I jsut re-checked and when I installled the Boot Camp drivers on my old MacBook Pro from my Snow Leopard DVD, it installed 2 Apple provided drivers on my Windows system. Those files were AppleHFS.sys and AppleMNT.sys. Those two driers gave my Windows 7 installation read only access to my MacOS boot volume when I was running Windows in native mode.

I imagine that if you do a Google serach for those drivers, you will find reference to them being a part of the Boot Camp 3.x drivers provided by Apple.

I said.

Windows is not capable of reading from HFS file systems without 3rd party software.

You installed a of pair 3rd party drivers.

GeekBoy.from.Illinois wrote:

Well, I jsut re-checked and when I installled the Boot Camp drivers on my old MacBook Pro from my Snow Leopard DVD, it installed 2 Apple provided drivers on my Windows system. Those files were AppleHFS.sys and AppleMNT.sys. Those two driers gave my Windows 7 installation read only access to my MacOS boot volume when I was running Windows in native mode.

Just as I said.